‘One Earth, One Health’: Yoga Day provides respite in a tumultuous world
In an age marked by conflicts, disease, dysfunction and mental [...]
WHO warns of a health financing emergency
The world is facing a health financing emergency, according to [...]
Make midwives universally accessible and save millions of lives, WHO urges
Almost 4.5 million maternal, stillborn and newborn deaths were recorded [...]
Without urgent funding, global hunger hotspots are set to grow, UN warns
Since conflict erupted in Sudan, more than a million people [...]
World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism
Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 [...]
World News in Brief: ‘Indifference and impunity’ in Sudan, ICC judges speak out against sanctions, respiratory diseases overlooked in Europe
With over half of the Sudanese population in need of [...]
Famine stalks two counties in South Sudan as fragile peace is threatened
Two counties in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan [...]
Social and economic barriers, not choice, driving global fertility crisis: UNFPA
The global fertility slump isn’t down to young people turning [...]
AIDS still killing one person every minute as funding cuts stall progress
AIDS-related deaths have dropped to their lowest level since 2004, [...]
World News in Brief: Women’s health in Sudan, childhood wasting, Belarus trade unions, Guatemala child rights violation
As hostilities rage in Sudan, access constraints and devastating funding [...]
World News in Brief: Education suffers amid DR Congo violence, WHO greenlights RSV vaccines, more hurricanes ahead for Haiti
In Ituri, a province in the east of the Democratic [...]
Flavoured nicotine products driving youth addiction, WHO warns
For most nicotine users today, their first experience with the [...]
Pandemics to pollution: WHO Assembly delivers landmark health decisions
The 78th World Health Assembly concluded Tuesday in Geneva, marking [...]
Sudan war exacerbates risk of cholera and malaria: UNICEF
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned of an escalating [...]
Sudan conflict triggers regional health crisis, warns WHO
As the war between rival militaries in Sudan continues, the [...]
What’s your poison? Alcohol linked to higher risk of pancreatic cancer
Alcoholic drinks, especially beer and spirits, may raise the risk [...]
Public health champions honoured for work ‘beyond the call of normal duty’
Some patients are easy to diagnose. They walk into a [...]
‘A silent crisis’: Obstetric fistula affects 500,000 women, yet it’s fully treatable
Five days – that is how long it took Dah, [...]
Nations adopt historic pledge to guard against future pandemics
After three years of negotiations sparked by the COVID-19 crisis, [...]
World Health Assembly opens amid high-stakes pandemic treaty vote, global funding crisis
The 78th World Health Assembly opened on Monday with a broad [...]